Automation & Integration Engineer (021 - 1,413)

​​Looking for Philippines-based candidates

Job Role: Automation & Integration Engineer

Compensation range: $2,500 - $4,000 AUD  Monthly

Engagement type: Full-time, Independent Contractor Agreement

Work Schedule: Australian business hours, Monday to Friday, with availability to collaborate closely with the client and their Office Manager.

Who We Are

At Hunt St, we help Australian companies hire top remote talent in the Philippines. For this role, you will be engaged directly by the client as an independent contractor. We are not an outsourcing agency. All of our roles are 100% remote so you'll be able to work from home.

Who The Client Is

The client is an Australian roofing business developing an AI-first operations platform to streamline business processes and support future growth. The platform will connect key business systems, including ServiceM8, Xero, GoHighLevel, and roof-measurement tools, into a unified and automated operational ecosystem.

Role Overview

This is not a typical automation or integration role. We are looking for a resourceful, commercially minded Automation & Integration Engineer who combines strong technical integration expertise, business acumen, and an understanding of operational workflows.

The core focus of this role is building and maintaining reliable two-way integrations between ServiceM8, Xero, GoHighLevel, roof-measurement tools, and other business applications. You will develop robust API integrations, configure webhooks, prevent duplicate records, implement error handling and recovery mechanisms, and ensure data flows accurately and reliably across the business's systems.

GoHighLevel is one component of the wider technology stack. The Office Manager will manage its day-to-day operations, while you will be responsible for connecting it with other business systems, supporting relevant automations, and ensuring information flows correctly across the operational ecosystem.

A key requirement of this role is developing systems transparently within the client's own Mac-based environment and AI workspace powered by Claude. The goal is to ensure that the company's AI learns its business processes, system architecture, and implementation decisions as the work progresses, so the business can understand, maintain, and troubleshoot its systems independently.

You will work closely with the Office Manager to ensure that the systems you build reflect real operational needs and improve how the business operates.

This is a long-term, full-time contractor engagement for someone who wants to take ownership of business systems, contribute to operational and financial performance, and grow into a broader business operations role over time.

Key Responsibilities

Systems Integration & Automation

• Build, maintain, and optimize integrations between ServiceM8, Xero, GoHighLevel, roof-measurement tools, and other business applications.

• Develop and manage REST API integrations, webhooks, and automated workflows to enable reliable two-way communication between systems.

• Implement data validation, conditional logic, and safeguards to prevent duplicate records and maintain data accuracy.

• Design robust error-handling, synchronization recovery, logging, and automated alerting mechanisms.

• Troubleshoot integration issues and develop practical workarounds when platforms lack native functionality.

• Test and monitor integrations to ensure reliability, scalability, and consistency across connected systems.

• Identify opportunities to eliminate manual data entry, reduce repetitive administrative work, and improve operational efficiency.

AI-First Development & System Knowledge Management

• Develop and configure automations directly within the client's own Mac-based systems and AI environment powered by Claude.

• Build transparently in the client's environment, capturing system knowledge, business logic, and implementation decisions as work progresses.

• Ensure the company's AI environment learns how the systems operate, how integrations are structured, and how common issues can be resolved.

• Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate implementation, solve technical challenges, and improve automation workflows.

• Maintain clear, practical documentation within the company's own environment rather than relying on documentation produced only after implementation.

• Ensure that system knowledge remains accessible to the business and is not dependent solely on the individual who built the integrations.

GoHighLevel Integration & Operational Support

• Connect GoHighLevel with ServiceM8, Xero, roof-measurement tools, and other business applications to support seamless information flow across the business.

• Build and maintain integrations that support lead management, sales follow-up, customer engagement, and operational workflows.

• Ensure relevant customer, lead, quote, and job information is synchronized accurately between GoHighLevel and connected systems.

• Support the Office Manager by developing and troubleshooting the underlying integrations that enable GoHighLevel workflows to function reliably.

• Identify opportunities to reduce manual data entry and improve the consistency of information used across marketing, sales, and operations.

• Troubleshoot integration issues affecting GoHighLevel workflows without taking over the Office Manager's day-to-day platform management responsibilities.

• Monitor integration performance and proactively address synchronization issues, missing data, and workflow failures.

Business Operations & Financial Performance

• Collaborate closely with the Office Manager to understand existing workflows and identify opportunities for automation.

• Connect operational, sales, and accounting systems to improve visibility into jobs, quotes, costs, and financial performance.

• Understand profit-and-loss statements, gross profit, gross margins, labour costs, material costs, and overheads.

• Assess the financial impact of operationa